"SharePoint Administration" service missing from windows services

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For one of my Premier customers, SharePoint administration Service went missing from Windows services console (Services.msc)

Here are details of the issue and it's resolution:

 

Symptoms:

We are not able to see the "SharePoint 2010 Administration" service in Windows services console (services.msc).

When running command: "PSConfig -cmd services -install", you might also get an error message similar to this:

An exception of type System.UnauthorizedAccessException was thrown. Additional exception information: Access to the path 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\3fc29d1c-b70b-42c0-bdf0-fc5c48f76de1\891c821c-cffe-4d42-b959-049955122a33.xml' is denied.

Cause:

"SharePoint Administration" Service gets removed accidently from the farm either manually or via some 3rd party product.

Resolution:

  • We navigated to command prompt > C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727
  • Ran this command to install SPAdminV4 service:

Installutil -i "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN\wssadmin.exe"

  • It completed successfully.
  • Admin service started appearing in services console and we were able to start it successfully on the SharePoint server.

More Information:

SharePoint Administration service exists in all SharePoint versions and Builds so the article applies to all SharePoint products.

 

I Hope that helps! Happy SharePointing !!